Dumka (musical genre)

Examples#

Major examples in the classical repertoire include:

Stanisław Moniuszko#

• Jontek’s aria from the opera Halka (1858)
• Jadwiga’s aria from the opera The Haunted Manor (1865)

Antonín Dvořák#

• Dumka in D minor (Elegy), Op. 35 (1876) for piano solo
• String Sextet in A, Op. 48 (1878), mvt. 2: “Dumka: Poco allegretto”
• String Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat Major, Op. 51 – B. 92 (1878–79): II. Dumka. Andante Con Moto
• Dumka in C minor, Op. 12a No. 1 (1884) for piano solo
• Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 (1878) and 72 (1887), (Three of the sixteen)
• Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 (1879/80), mvt. 3 – though based on a Furiant, the middle part is a dumka
• Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Op. 81 (1887), mvt. 2: “Dumka: Andante con moto”
• Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90 (1891) — the Dumky-Trio

Leoš Janáček#

*Dumka for violin & piano

Bohuslav Martinů#

• Dumka (unnumbered), H. 4 (1909 – Polička, Czechoslovakia), for solo piano
• Dumka No. 1, H. 249 (1936 – Paris, France), for solo piano
• Dumka No. 2, H. 250 (1936 – Paris, France), for solo piano
• Dumka No. 3, H. 285bis (1941 – Jamaica, NY, USA), for solo piano

Pyotr Tchaikovsky#

*Dumka, Op. 59 (Scenes from a Russian village) for solo piano (1886)

Others#

• Anatoly Kos-Anatolsky, Dumka and kolomiyka from the opera Sojchyne krylo
• Mily Balakirev, Dumka in E flat minor (1900)
• Vasyl Barvinsky, Dumka (1925)
• Alexander Borodin, Dumka (from the piano quintet nr.2 in A Major, op. 81)
• Frédéric Chopin, Dumka, Op. 74 No. 19, KK IVb/9, CT. 147
• Rebecca Clarke, Dumka, Duo Concertante for Violin and Viola, with Piano (1941)
• Franz Liszt, Dumka, S 249B
• Mykola Lysenko, 2nd piano rhapsody (1877)
• Modest Mussorgsky, Paraska’s aria from the opera Sorochynsky fair
• Sergei Prokofiev, Dumka in A minor (published posthumously)
• Adam Wronski, Dumka i kolomyjka, Op. 93 (1900)
• M. Shneider-Trnavsky, Dumka and dance for symphony orchestra (1909)
• M. Zawadsky, 12 dumky and 42 shumky
• V. Zaremba
• Sigismund Zaremba
• Nikolai Budashkin, Dumka (Träumerei) in the Andante from the ‘Concerto for Domra and Orchestra’ Op.8 (1943).
• John Brothers Piano Company, Dumka (2019)
• Sofia Mavrogenidou, Dumka (several versions : for piano solo, for flute, cello and piano, for cello and piano and for accordion and flute)

References#

• S. I. Gritsa (Hrytsa) Dumi vidayushcheyesya dostoyaniye ukrainskoy kulturi (Dumy a remarkable product of Ukrainian culture) Musica anticqua Europae orientalis II Bydgosz, 1969.(In Russian)
• M. Antonowych Dumka and Duma in MGG